Trump announces Apple investing another $100 billion in US manufacturing
[August 07, 2025] By
JOSH BOAK
WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at
the White House on Wednesday to announce a commitment by the tech
company to increase its investment in U.S. manufacturing by an
additional $100 billion over the next four years.
"This is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of ensuring that
iPhones sold in the United States of America also are made in America,"
Trump said at the press conference. “Today’s announcement is one of the
largest commitments in what has become among the greatest investment
booms in our nation’s history."
As part of the Apple announcement, the investments will be about
bringing more of its supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the
United States as part of an initiative called the American Manufacturing
Program, but it is not a full commitment to build its popular iPhone
device domestically.
“This includes new and expanded work with 10 companies across America.
They produce components — semiconductor chips included — that are used
in Apple products sold all over the world, and we’re grateful to the
President for his support,” Cook said in a statement announcing the
investment.
The new manufacturing partners include Corning, Coherent, Applied
Materials, Texas Instruments and Broadcom among others.
Apple had previously said it intended to invest $500 billion
domestically, a figure it will now increase to $600 billion. Trump in
recent months has criticized the tech company and Cook for efforts to
shift iPhone production to India to avoid the tariffs his Republican
administration had planned for China.

While in Qatar earlier this year, Trump said there was “a little
problem” with the Cupertino, California, company and recalled a
conversation with Cook in which he said he told the CEO, “I don’t want
you building in India.”
India has incurred Trump’s wrath, as the president signed an order
Wednesday to put an additional 25% tariff on the world’s most populous
country for its use of Russian oil. The new import taxes to be imposed
in 21 days could put the combined tariffs on Indian goods at 50%.
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President Donald Trump makes an announcement about Apple with Apple
CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in
Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
 Apple’s new pledge comes just a few
weeks after it forged a $500 million deal with MP Materials, which
runs the only rare earths producer in the country. That agreement
will enable MP Materials to expand a factory in Texas to use
recycled materials to produce magnets that make iPhones vibrate.
Speaking on a recent investors call, Cook emphasized that “there’s a
load of different things done in the United States.” As examples, he
cited some of the iPhone components made in the U.S. such as the
device’s glass display and module for identifying people’s faces and
then indicated the company was gearing to expand its productions of
other components in its home country.
“We’re doing more in this country, and that’s on top of having
roughly 19 billion chips coming out of the US now, and we will do
more,” Cook told analysts last week, without elaborating.
News of Apple’s latest investment in the U.S. caused the company’s
stock price to surge by 5% in Wednesday’s midday trading. That gain
reflects investors’ relief that Cook “is extending an olive branch”
to the Trump administration, said Nancy Tengler, CEO of money
manager Laffer Tengler Investments, which owns Apple stock.
Despite Wednesday’s upturn, Apple’s shares are still down by 15%
this year, a reversal of fortune that has also been driven by the
company’s botched start in the pivotal field of artificial
intelligence.
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AP Technology Writers Michael Liedtke and Shawn Chen contributed to
this report.
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